Is this the same piece of crap software that wants to re-download the entire sc2 client on first install despite having it already on drive ? (effectively doubling size of the install for nothing) If so then fuck it.
I anyways dont get why everyone is willing to produce their own steam-clone these days, missing the times where you could just launch games without having to fire up an overlay and finally the game running atop, wondering if Windows is becoming redundant next as all firms write their own environment forcing us to boot drive just to play their games. Its a ridiculous direction of development.
It should be better now. The reason why it asks you to re-download the entire sc2 client is because it couldn't locate your sc2 installation. They have options to show the app where your installation is.
I was against it at first, but I find it convenient for WoW and hearthstone. It helps you check if friends are on, and it is a lot better patching than the previous years. I almost always have the client open, so it isn't a hassle to click the game and press play.
I am sorry to dissapoint you, but this isn't a new content. It's just a couple of icons to make a new windows wc3 version look ok when listed in battle.net launcher.
Wc3 on win10, that's pretty much it.
But that's still some good news. They are not giving up on supporting the game, yay.
People are overreacting, they are just updating the launcher to have those classic games such as Diablo II, War3, SC.
That is possible, but it would reflect very poorly on Blizzard if they released the game in its current state. You can't even install it on a Mac (and you can't run BNet on later versions), BNet is filled with bots and is using an old system, more than half of the players probably use different clients for online play, and players have been begging for a ladder reset/new map pool for years (which one Blizz representative said they would do, but never did).
If they added it to the launcher, it would certainly entice people to play it again (heck, there would probably be a lot of new comers too, if the game is cheap enough). As such, Blizzard would need more support. Currently, their support for wc3 is at a record-low of 0 representatives, but hopefully it would bring at least 1 person to monitor it. That alone would be a success and could bring about change. It isn't necessarily about getting anything to directly benefit us as modders, but simply increasing the player base would be awesome.
Of course, it is definitely possible that you guys are right--maybe Blizzard will just slap it in the launcher and call it a day. However, even if that is all they do, I'm pretty sure the increased amount of players will promote them to make changes.
EDIT: Note that the question at Blizzcon was about porting to
modern systems. If that includes OS X, then that is actually really good. It means Blizz will have to update their wc3 BNet technology to BNet 2.0, since open transport doesn't work on the latest versions of OS X. That alone would be an awesome change, since it would make BNet a lot more bearable without a need for hosting bots.
